{"id":457492,"date":"2026-06-02T18:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/457492\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:18:11","slug":"russo-brothers-say-doctor-doom-costume-is-their-favorite-in-mcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/457492\/","title":{"rendered":"Russo Brothers Say Doctor Doom Costume is Their Favorite in MCU"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWith almost half a year to go until its release, the Russo Brothers<\/a> tried their best not to say too much about \u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d during a packed-out talk at SXSW London<\/a>, but ended up discussing the hotly-anticipated Marvel title rather a lot.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking on stage alongside \u201cFortnite\u201d co-creator Donald Mustard<\/a> \u2014 now a partner at their AGBO production banner \u2014 on a panel moderated by Variety\u2018s co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh, the two revealed that Robert Downey Jr.\u2019s upcoming Doctor Doom costume is their favorite out of all five Marvel films they\u2019ve directed.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Setoodeh asked why, Joe Russo teased: \u201cYou\u2019ll have to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSensing the audience at the Truman Brewery in East London were eager for more details, Anthony Russo added: \u201cIt\u2019s representative of the character in a way that the costume and the character really, really fit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJoe explained: \u201cPart of our challenge has always been that there\u2019s something that we love from the comics, and there\u2019s something that you know other fans of the comics love; sometimes those things are the same thing, sometimes they\u2019re different things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA lot of times, what our expression in the movie ends up being is what we love most about the comics, but then what is original to our storytelling, what is brand new \u2014 because we always look at it as our job to not tell you a story that you\u2019ve heard before, we\u2019re never translating directly from the comics, we\u2019re always adding a new experience that hasn\u2019t been written yet in terms of who these characters can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added: \u201cBut I would say Doom hits that sweet spot between being very specific and unique to the original story that happens within this film but also delivering on what the most awesome things are about Doom in the comics.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJoe and Anthony Russo alongside Donald Mustard and Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh at SXSW London<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the brothers were clearly reluctant to give away any story details regarding \u201cAvengers: Doomsday,\u201d which has been shooting in the U.K.\u2019s Pinewood Studios, they asserted it represented a clean slate in terms of the superheroes.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re back to phase zero, we\u2019re starting over from scratch,\u201d said Anthony Russo. \u201cWe\u2019re not leaning on anything from the past. It\u2019s a complete new direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added: \u201cYou\u2019re going to see some shifting and changing in the Avengers. Get ready for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJoe Russo also took time to praise the current hot topic in Hollywood: how YouTube creators are smashing box office records and turning the traditional industry on its head.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m fascinated by \u2018Obsession,’\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a brilliant film, it\u2019s really clever, it\u2019s viciously funny in a very dark way. And it\u2019s an explosively disruptive moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally, Joe acknowledged how current box office topper \u201cBackrooms\u201d was borne out of a \u201ccollective myth that was built by the internet, that Kane Parsons built out into a story. It\u2019s a very different way of telling stories [previously], where Hollywood would anoint a story they deemed everyone should watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe SXSW London chat came on a day where many had been expecting a new \u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d trailer. Given that\u2019s it\u2019s been over six years \u2014 plus one pandemic and an actors\u2019 strike \u2014 since their \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d became a $2.8 billion sensation in 2019, there\u2019s a lot of excitement among Marvel fans, not to mention expectations on the title to bring some much-needed box office buoyancy to the superhero world.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first full-length trailer for \u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d was unveiled at CinemaCon<\/a>, showcasing Downey Jr, not in his iconic role of Iron Man, but as the green-hooded, metal-faced villain Doctor Doom. The footage revealed that Chris Evans also returns as the original Captain America.<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite Iron Man having definitively wrapped up his character arc in \u201cEndgame,\u201d fans have been speculating the new film riffs on the 2016\/17 comic series \u201cInfamous Iron Man,\u201d written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Alex Maleev, in which the villainous Doctor Doom seeks redemption by adopting Iron Man\u2019s armour and becoming a hero.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d is slated for release December 18, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With almost half a year to go until its release, the Russo Brothers tried their best not to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6004,232445,156,409,111,139,69,142025,231625],"class_list":["post-457492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-avengers-doomsday","tag-donald-mustard","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-russo-brothers","tag-sxsw-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}